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# Re: puzzling question...

- Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 07:19:12 PDT
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- cc: cbaldry@envirolink.org, moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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- In-Reply-To: <v01540b01adb19f0878a2@[199.88.137.199]>

    And, warning, whatever you think of Hacker, Never, Ever, Ever, Delete Him.

    Of all the mistakes we made in learning MOO programming, that has been
    the most irritating [.."well, gee, what is this here...do we need it?
    naw, let's just tidy things up a bit here and delete this player no
    one ever seems to use...."]

    It has resulted in our Law of MOO Programming No. 1:  Never delete
    any object with a number lower than 100.

    Doesn't result in a fatal crash; just stops you from being able to
    recycle ANYTHING.

    We've had to re-type in the whole damn database....
    which leads to *my* question:  isn't there a faster way
    to move big chunks of an old .db file into a new .db file,
    only selectively?

    On Sat, 4 May 1996, Aaron Paushter wrote:
    > >I have one question who is Hacker and why is it a character that no one logs
    > >into?????
    >
    > Hackers the one that owns all of those objects that you never knew existed
    > (actually, you probably did)... For example, all of the toaded players,
    > helps, generics.. Most of the invalid objects. It doesn't connect becuase,
    > well, it's not meant to. Yes you can @newpassword it, but it's not the
    > smartest thing to do.. not fun when you accidently @recycle #3 or something
    > like that. :)
    > If you really wanna see what (exactly) it owns, just @audit it or @show
    > it's .owned_objects. That'll be all, thank you, drive through.
    >
    > -Aaron
    >
    > /--------------------------------------------------\
    > |Visit me at: http://ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu/~greatone/|
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    >
    >
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    >

    Wendy L. Schultz                   |
    Hawaii Research Center             |   It is the duty of the future
             for Futures Studies       |      to be dangerous.
    wendy@hawaii.edu                   |    --  Alfred North Whitehead

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